Century Rain, CmdrTaco, and slashdot

I still remember the warm fuzzies I got when, part of the way through Alastair Reynold's Century Rain , the origin of the Slashers was made explicit. (For those who can't be bothered to read the book an alliance of progressive thinkers linked together by one of the first computer networks , followed by a gesture depicting a slash, and a dot)

Goodbye +Rob Malda, we'll miss ya.